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Properties of efficient accretion events. Top: Turbulent Jeans length over cell size (λJ, turb/Δx) versus hydrogen number density (nH) of cells hosting sink particles in SINK-Fid. Note that the sum of gas, stars, sinks, and dark matter particles is used to estimate the total density (ρ) of the host cell when calculating λJ, turb in Eq. (6). We show sink particles with an accretion rate greater than 10−5 M⊙ yr−1 and nH greater than 100 cm−3 from all snapshots. The horizontal dashed line corresponds to λJ, turb = Δx, below which star formation can be triggered in the GTT runs. Bottom: SFEs per free-fall time, measured directly from the accretion rate and gas mass within the accretion zone (εff, acc), versus that derived from the host cell of the sink particle using Eq. (3) (εff, cell). Data points with εff, cell < 10−3 M⊙ yr−1 are represented by arrows. The black dashed line indicates a one-to-one relationship. The color scale represents Ṁacc in both panels.
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